Hunter said the airport authorities produced a list that labelled her medication as a class A drug but claims she was told by the Australian Consulate-General’s office in Bali that no such list existed.

“They searched me on the internet, found out that I am a model, assumed that I’m loaded and that’s why I was personally targeted and extorted for 40k,” Hunter said, according to 7 News.

According to the ABC, the department of foreign affairs said it would not comment on the specific case but confirmed it has helped an Australian woman who had been detained in Bali.

A spokesman for Bali police told the ABC that Hunter was released because her medicine was “in accordance with her illness and conditions”.

“Regarding the money that she mentioned, we did not receive, even a penny,” he said.